[Desktop_printing] [Unacceptable] Hotel reservations - Printi ng Summit

[McDonald, Ira]

Hi John,

Size is a good reason, for sure - but security is a much more
_important_ one.

By the way, whatever you're using to generate PDF versions,
it's a terrible tool.  Optimized PDFs are always much smaller
than their corresponding MS Word files.

Adobe Acrobat Distiller regularly turns 200KB MS Word sources
for IEEE/ISTO PWG documents into 25KB to 50KB PDF versions.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cherry [mailto:cherry at osdl.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 1:49 PM
> To: McDonald, Ira
> Cc: desktop_printing at osdl.org; 'tshillin at lanier.com'
> Subject: RE: [Desktop_printing] [Unacceptable] Hotel reservations -
> Printi ng Summit
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:04 -0800, McDonald, Ira wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > Thanks for that plaintext form - we'll all use it.
> > 
> > But there's another MUCH more important reason NEVER to send
> > any attachment in '.doc' (MS Word) format - there are free
> > hacker tools out there that insert viruses into MS Word
> > documents and there are many insecure SMTP mail forwarding
> > machines in the Internet infrastructure (i.e., between senders
> > and receivers).
> > 
> > Thus, when I consulted for Xerox, sending an MS Word attachment
> > would result in a nasty note from their network support folks.
> > 
> > There is literally NEVER a good reason to exchange a document
> > only in MS Word format.
> 
> Size alone is a good reason to use text (especially for those reading
> mail remotely).  For comparison...
> 
> Text   -    568
> OO 1.0 - 12,789
> OO 2.0 - 13,170
> MS doc - 10,752 (actually surprised it was lower)
> PDF    - 56,268
> 
> John
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > - Ira
> > 
> > 
> > Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
> > Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
> > PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
> > phone: +1-906-494-2434
> > email: imcdonald at sharplabs.com
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Cherry [mailto:cherry at osdl.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 12:55 PM
> > > To: McDonald, Ira
> > > Cc: desktop_printing at osdl.org; 'tshillin at lanier.com'
> > > Subject: RE: [Desktop_printing] [Unacceptable] Hotel 
> reservations -
> > > Printi ng Summit
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:32 -0800, McDonald, Ira wrote:
> > > > Hi John,
> > > > 
> > > > This is a Linux/open software conference!!!
> > > > 
> > > > Forcing all of the attendees to fill out and return a form 
> > > > only in MS Word proprietary format is just plain unacceptable.
> > > 
> > > I agree with you completely.  However, the world is 
> filled with non-OO
> > > users and a .doc format is still the common "office" format 
> > > (i.e. can be
> > > written/read by OO).
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This is a very simple registration form that could EASILY be
> > > > transferred in a plaintext email.
> > > 
> > > Absolutely.  I have attached a plain text form of the hotel 
> > > registration
> > > below.  This would work just fine for submitting your hotel info.
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
> > > 
>